I’m not even sure I knew the nfl draft was an event you could go to until this year.

That feeling of walking into a meeting and seeing post it notes and chart paper at every seat 😬 .

Can’t. Get. Enough. Trillium. www.masonheberling.com/collected-on...

Humanities folks love using the term “interlocutors.” I hope to one day use it too.

Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.

Herbarium Sheets Are Holding Secrets Their Makers Never Intended
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When you mount a plant on a sheet, you capture more than botany. A new paper reveals the unexpected historical treasures hiding in herbaria, and why closing them is a mistake.
#Botany #PlantScience

Strongly recommend! Study plants and have a topic you love? An opportunity to dig and think deeply on a topic, with no restraints on length, and provide your perspective on its past, present, and future. And get paid! Writing this review on traits & herbaria in 2022 was super rewarding.

A sight for “sore-oria” eyes! Pairs nicely with dandelion. #Viola #sororia

Out with a new student to show our field site this morning. We found some nice stuff amid the snow 🥶 🌼 Leaves a bit crispy…

Awesome exhibition just opened at Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation @cmu.edu “To make a prairie” - on the topic of pollination and how we came to know what we know as shown through botanical art, books, and specimens. I love the approach, epistemological interrogation through archives

Neat study: The pistil as a traffic light: Yellow-to-red color change likely influences pollinator visitation patterns in Saxifraga fortunei (Saxifragaceae) in @plantspeopleplanet.bsky.social nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Ok, who woke up spicebush?!

Skunk cabbage, one of the earliest blooming species in eastern North America

Powdermill!

Skunk cabbage flowers emerging through wet leaf litter

Here we gooooo!

There’s a bat in the herbarium!?Holding on to this guy as part of loan to Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation for an upcoming exhibition exploring pollination next month.

"The refining and humanizing influence of the gentler pursuits, which are being cultivated by the [Botanical Society of Western PA], cannot fail to leave a marked impression upon the life of our busy city." - Carnegie Museum Annual Report for 1899

Wearing the same shirt today I wore when I defended my dissertation. 11 years ago. Not a stain!

“As I tell my students, one of the most important powers of the discipline of history is that it teaches us that the present was not inevitable—and therefore, that the future is not predetermined.” -Laura J. Martin

Ghosts Behind Glass How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.   While it’s no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The rema...

This looks like a great book! I want to buy it but I seem to be buying books at a faster rate than I read them… press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Both! An inquisitive group. The class was uniquely titled “how to build a ruin: seed politics.” So they were especially interested in seeds (esp crops) but also history of collection and how it is housed.

I'm excited to work w/the @ijpsjournal.bsky.social editorial team!

Reasons to submit:
-great science & people
-not for profit & affordable
-celebrates undergrad pubs w/mock covers (3 examples)
-awesome bandanas (pic of my lab)
-Primers in the Plant Sciences www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/ijp...

And we have two new additions to announce: @jmheberling.bsky.social and @smwadgymar.bsky.social have signed up for 4-year terms on the @ijpsjournal.bsky.social board. We're excited to have them join our merry band of editors. (5/n)

#PlantScience

Yesssss.They crave it!

@cmu.edu architecture class visited herbarium today. A first for me! Love it.

Sick burn 🔥 Linnaeus wrote in 1764 in reference to Michel Adanson (English translation): “I saw the natural method of Adanson…He gives copious notes, but nevertheless distinguishes nothing…I wonder whether he be sane or sober…”.

Highly recommended to any and all undergrads looking for research experiences with plants!
The Carnegie Museum includes a great herbariu, a beautiful forest reserve, and Mason, who's an cool person, incredibly supportive, and has with a vast knowledge about plants and their interactions.

😊 oh my. Thank you Luiza! ☺️

four people happy in the forest with trillium flowers everywhere

Exciting new undergraduate research opportunities here at Carnegie Museum in Botany! Applications due March 1. drive.google.com/file/d/1jNNy...

Thoughtful position statement on AI from Natural Areas Association on calling out “cultural, social, and ethical issues” as well as environmental. www.naturalareas.org/ai_statement...

Rhododendron leaves curled up in the icy cold

Things are getting nasty out there. THERMOnasty!